Nigel Farage has called Tate an ‘important voice’ for young men and held back from criticising his misogynistic views
Reform insiders are becoming increasingly irritated by the party’s association with Andrew Tate and other extreme online celebrities whose views are too toxic for the mainstream voters Nigel Farage needs to win over.
Insiders have revealed that as Reform prepare for power they are trying to end their association with more controversial figures on the right such as Tate, whose extreme and misogynistic content could taint the party’s credibility.
While courting online popularity before the party’s boom in the polls, their leader, Farage, appeared loth to criticise the online “manosphere” influencer. Tate is facing 21 charges for crimes including human trafficking should he ever return to the UK.
In 2024, Farage said in online interviews that Tate was an “important voice” for the “emasculated” and giving boys “perhaps a bit of confidence at school”. Tate is becoming better known among mainstream voters as his conduct is reported in programmes such as Louis Theroux’s recent Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere.
